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Stool Pigeon
247pages. poche. Cartonné.
157 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1953
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September 13, 2019
Hidden Gem
I’d never heard of this book until it was reissued by Black Gat Books/Stark House Press which specializes in discovering and reissuing lost crime/noir novels of the fifties and sixties. Well this book is a cut above. As much a social history of NewYork in the fifties and the life of a detective as a crime story, it moves fast and rings real while retaining all the good pulp stuff. Highly Recommended, as are most of the other Stark House Press reissues.
I’d never heard of this book until it was reissued by Black Gat Books/Stark House Press which specializes in discovering and reissuing lost crime/noir novels of the fifties and sixties. Well this book is a cut above. As much a social history of NewYork in the fifties and the life of a detective as a crime story, it moves fast and rings real while retaining all the good pulp stuff. Highly Recommended, as are most of the other Stark House Press reissues.
October 7, 2019
An interesting replica of how the New York mafia operates. My problem was disliking the cop who was the main character. The book was published in 1953, and maybe if I read it then, I’d have related to it better. The final section is pretty damned good.
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